you don't have to spend much time here to understand why it's so hard to find joseph kony. ated and unforgiving as it gets. the undergrowth so thick, every step is a battle. when our producer, jeff newton, joined this ugandan tracking team, they'd been searching for kony and his army-- called the lord's resistance army, or l.r.a.-- for three months, tracking them the way you would an animal. >> kasim lukumbo: right now, we are searching for the enemy tracks. >> newton: footprints? >> lukumbo: yes, the footmarks of the l.r.a. >> newton: yeah. >> logan: 27-year-old lieutenant kasim lukumbo's sole mission for the past three years has been finding kony, and he's one of the ugandan army's top trackers. the footprints are the first sign they've seen of kony's army in six days. ( soldiers whispering ) as they followed the trail, the soldiers whispered so as not to give away their positions. after an hour, they reached this stream, but the tracks disappeared into the water. >> newton: no l.r.a.? >> ugandan soldier: no l.r.a. let's go back. >> newton: okay. >> logan: there were no gr

. >> author david eax -- axe and illustrator tim hamilton talk about joseph kony in africa. this is about an hour. >> my name is david axe, and i want to start out by making it very clear this is a comic book we're talking about. the term we use is graphic novel,. it tends to throw a lot of people, but for many years now folks have been using comic books to do reporting. tim and i are not the first. but it's still a relatively small field. before i talk about the book specifically, and i'm going to be brief because there are other folks that talk and then we're going to have a discussion, i want to take you back about three years. so the 2009-2010 time frame, where i was. had spent the previous five years reporting mostly from iraq and afghanistan and a smattering of other conflict zones. but the sort of dominant theme of my reporting, looking at it as an american writing for, writing for an american audience. the dominant theme was what we'd done wrong or how we were screwing things up. the iraq war, obviously, began with lies and mistakes of epic proportion. and besides be

you don't have to spend much time here to understand why it's so hard to find joseph kony. ergrowth so thick, every step is a battle. when our producer joined this ugandan tracking team, they had been searching for kony and his army called the lord's resistance army, or lra, for three months, tracking them the way you would an animal. >> right now we are trying to find the enemy tracks. >> footprints. >> the lra. >> reporter: this 27-year-old's sole mission for the past three years has been finding kony, and he's one of the ugandan army's top trackers. the footprints are the first sign they've seen of kony's army in six days. as they follow the trail, the soldiers whispered so as not to give away their position. after an hour, they reached this stream, but the tracks disappeared into the water. >> no lra. okay. >> reporter: there were no green berets on this mission. they do go off on operations like this, but they prefer to stay in the background, keeping a low profile is part of the u.s. strategy. >> they're the lead. they've always been the lead. we're relatively new here

joseph kony is still at large. commanding a force of some 100 people, let's say. many of them who may have been forcibly recruited in to his army. and who survived basically on the basis of killing and rape and pillage and wreaking havoc on the local population who does not want him there. or do not want him there. and moving in very remote zones that are very hard to get to where there are very few roads and you can't take cars very easily. and our researchers go on motor bike for three hours to get there. and, you know, the u.n. might say it's too remote it can't get there. they kind of lurk in the northern congo that was a whrong way of asking do you feel like the various efforts you did see undertake manifested themselves in something good you feel proud of which is sounds like you want order did you come back feeling disappointed and why? >> well, first of all, my trip to congo took place before the expansion of the u.s. involvement in congo which occurred in late 2011. so there were some americans on the ground but not too many. it was too early for me to be

that's the kind of ruthless madman we're dealing with in joseph kony. and believe me, president obama has really put a target on his back. we are going after this man. we have driven him out of uganda. we believe he is in the central africa republic. i saw firsthand while visiting there what we are doing to make sure his rein of -- reign of terror comes to an end quickly. it turns out kony's reign of terror has been fed by the chinese demand for ivory. he is poaching the elephants, slaughtering them in the area and using this ivory to keep his men in arms and their reign of terror continue. the increasing american jobs through greater exports to africa act is something everyone should support. it's good for the u.s. company, helps u.s. businesses create jobs, is good for u.s. foreign policy, keeps america in a position of global leadership, and it's good for the people of africa. by making superior american products and services the standard in their future. i urge my colleagues to sign on to support this important effort. while we wait and do nothing,

joseph kony and his followers are known to loot villages.kill residents and even steal children - toup. u-s leaders say rewards have been very helpful in capturing other war crime criminals. the move follows a decision by uganda's army - to suspend its hunt for the rebels. >> jacqueline: take a look @ futurecast 4:04 a.m. for the moderate commute. 6:00 a.m., of showing also moderate conditions. and 8:00 a.m., closer to the coast with rainfall pressing to the east. 9:00 a.m., the central valley. by noon, spotty showers to the north bay. and by 3:00 p.m. after rainfall tapering off. a look at your extended forecast. spotty showers in the afternoon it will stay dry. a slight chance for rainfall in the north bay saturday and the slight chance for the bay area on sunday however, temperatures will nearly 80 degrees by wednesday. >> you are watching television right now so why not >> starting on monday, at 8:00 a.m. or 8:00 p.m. you can redeem points and exclusive kron 4 items it is kind of like frequent-flier miles. just for watching us. kron 4 news at 8:00 a.m. will feature a word on the

a recent change in leadership in the central african republic meant the search for joseph kony, the leaderthe lord's resistance army, was suspended. but yesterday, the u.s. state department announced a new $5 million reward for any information leading to kony's arrest. his band of warriors abduct children and adults and turn them into fighters and sexual slaves. japan's central bank took a bold step today to stimulate its economy. the bank of japan announced it is flooding its financial system with money, buying more than $530 billion a year in government bonds. the move is designed to get people and companies to borrow and spend more. japanese stocks soared on the news but the yen sank. the bank of japan decision sent stocks on wall street edging slightly higher today. the dow jones industrial average gained more than 55 points to close at 14,606. the nasdaq rose six points to close at 3,225. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to judy. >> woodruff: we update the story of texas officials shot to death recently, as law enforcement investigates possible ties between the mur

starting at 7 eastern, the crimes of joseph kony in central africa, their graisk novel is "army of god." and then jackie dunn and bernard -- [inaudible] present "rethinking money." at 10 p.m. eastern, neil irwin, author of "thal chemists," sits down with david wessel of "the wall street journal". and we conclude tonight's prime time programming at 11 eastern with sam roberts. he talks about the history of grand central station in new york. visit booktv.org for more on this weekend's television schedule. >> elliot abrams, who served on president george w. bush's national security council staff, provides an insider's take on the accomplishments and failures of the bush administration regarding the israeli/palestinian conflict. this is a little over an hour. >> good evening and welcome. i'm roger herring to, chairman of the new york historical society, and i'm pleased to welcome you here this evening. i think we're about to have a truly interesting evening, and a most revealing kind of program with an author who's put a lot of time into a particular area of study. in case you haven't noti

very proud that president obama said that the united states would offer a $5 million bounty on joseph konyhen uganda said we don't have the resources to keep looking for him. our continued national leadership when that means both our political leadership, and also our citizen leadership. >> and our cultural leadership. our media leadership. drawing eyeballs to the issue, saying we see you, is so important. ladies, this has been awesome. thank you so much for joining me. thank you to jada pinkett smith, chelsea clinton, and zaina zainab salvi. and my earlier panel, that's all for now. "andrea mitchell reports," whose show is celebrating its fifth anniversary today, is coming up next, congratulations, andrea. i don't like to golf. i love to golf. ♪ [ grunts ] yowza! that's why i eat belvita at breakfast. it's made with delicious ingredients and carefully baked to release steady energy that lasts... we are golfing now, buddy! [ grunts ] ...all morning long. i got it! for the win! uno mas! getting closer! belvita breakfast biscuits -- steady energy to do what i do all morning long. arrival. wi

this man, joseph kony, one of the leaders of the lord's resistance army. children as soldiers and sex slaves in central africa. kony was a subject of a video widely circulated through social media last year. >>> our goal is to change the conversation of our culture and get people to ask. >> the reward money is available under a new law signed by president obama in january. >>> kia and hyundai are recalling more than 1.6 million cars. here's the problem. defective brake lamps are sending wrong signals to the cars' electronic brain. hyundai and kia will send notifications to owners in june. that's when they should have enough new brake light switches available to fix the problem. it's one of the largest recalls ever for hyundai and kia. they are owned by the same south korean parent company. >>> coming up on cnn, cancer clinics are turning away some patients saying forced spending cuts are to blame. matt's brakes didn't sound right... ...so i brought my car to mike at meineke... ...and we inspected his brakes for free. -free is good. -free is very good. [ ma

they are offering $5 million for information leading to the arrest, transfer, or convictions of joseph konyders of the lord's resistance army. it's a violent rebel group from uganda scattered throughout central africa kanchts two men dead after a helicopter crashed and burst into flames. witnesses could hear the engine sputtering before the chopper plunged straight down. ntsb spokesman said initial reports show there were birds in the area and may have been a problem with the helicopter's tail rotor. >>> 50 feet down to the pavement, this suv took a terrifying plunge last night in downtown atlanta. you see firefighters put a neck brace on the driver. he may have had a medical problem. all four people in the jeep went to the hocht but spital. the driver was cited for t not having a license. >>> attention, a rare florida panther returned to the wild. scientists hope they he will do his part to keep this species going. their mother had died. the sister was released in february. they have monitoring collars on so wildlife experts can keep track of them. fewer than 200 panthers are believed to b